GE Industrial Solutions Galaxy Pulsar Edge - Manual (Page 200)

Galaxy Pulsar Edge Power System Controller
Issue 3 October 2011
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Individual alarms or events are assigned as Traps to one of the four specific SNMP
destinations. Assignment of the alarm and events is performed under the “Alarm
Notification” link under the main configuration “Settings” tab. The sample screen for this
configuration follows.
Community Strings
SNMP Community Strings can serve as trap destinations as well as passwords or user IDs for
network elements. The community name assigns an access environment for a set of SNMP Hosts
or Agents using that community name. An SNMP Host or Agent within the community can be
said to exist within the same administrative domain. Because devices that do not know the proper
community name are precluded from SNMP operations, network management personnel can use
the community name as a weak form of authentication. Community strings can be either read
only or read/write. Having this capability provides further security by restricting the ability to
alter the configuration of the managed device.
The Pulsar Edge defaults the value of the trap community string to “public” with read/write
access. There are also up to three Set/Get community strings that can be used. These are defaulted
as “public”, “public-write”, and “private” with the last two having read/write access.